The Detention Center
Fayette County Jail
- Operated byFayette County Sheriff's Office (Corrections Division)
- County publishes a jail nameYes - 'Fayette County Jail' on the Sheriff's Corrections page
- Jail AdministratorBradley Neville
- Bed capacity45 beds
- Jailers16 jailers licensed through the Texas Commission on Jail Standards
- Vendors namedProdigy Solutions (inmate phone), Lone Star Commissary (commissary/care packages)
- Beds and population, 2026-0840 people held in 46 rated beds
Source: Fayette County - Corrections · checked 2026-08-22
Transparency rating
3/10Closed- ✓The jail is named
- ✗Who is in custody — not published
- ✓Beds and daily population
- ✓What it costs taxpayers
- ✗Deaths in custody — not published
- ✗PREA audits — not published
- ✗Independent inspection — not published
- ✗Who else it holds, and for how much — not published
- ✗How to post bond — not published
- ✗Phone, video and commissary rates — not published
The Building
You paid for it. Here is what the record says it cost.
- Year builtNot found
- Original costNot found
- Paid for byNot found
- Beds45
Since then
- TCJS's 2025 Annual Jail Report lists Fayette County Jail among ten counties that completed a major renovation or addition during 2025, adding 1 bed. Source: https://www.tcjs.state.tx.us/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/2025AJR.pdf
The Sheriff
Sheriff Keith Korenek
- TitleFayette County Sheriff
- Chief DeputyRandy Noviskie
- Office address1646 North Jefferson, La Grange, TX 78945
- Phone979-968-5856
- Detention budget requested vs. approved, by year
- Jail staffing levels and vacancy rate
- Lawsuits and settlements involving the jail
Source: Fayette County - Sheriff: Contact Information · checked 2026-08-22
The Judges
Fayette County publishes no county court at law; the constitutional County Judge hears the county court docket.
County Judge
- Dan Mueller
155th District Court
- Jeff R. Steinhauser
Justices of the Peace
- Kyle Hartmann (Pct. 1)
- Jamie Moreau (Pct. 2)
- Charles Zapalac (Pct. 3)
- Paul Zapalac (Pct. 4)
- The county's bond schedule
- Share of the jail population held pretrial
- Median time from booking to first appearance
Source: the state judiciary · checked 2026-08-22
The County Commissioners
They pay for the jail. The sheriff runs it.
- What they controlThe detention budget, the building itself, and the agreements that let other agencies rent its beds.
- What they don'tDay-to-day operations. The sheriff is separately elected and answers to voters, not to the board.
- The boardBoard of County Commissioners →
- Where the jail money is decidedAgendas and minutes →
Notes on the record
- Bed capacity (45) is published; no daily population figure and no inmate roster are published by the county.
- The corrections page names the phone and commissary vendors and gives their contact numbers but publishes no rates.
- The 2026 Adopted Budget is published as a scanned PDF with no extractable text, so the jail line item could not be read; the budget itself is published.
- Visitation hours are published (Thursdays and Sundays) but there is no published bond-posting guidance.
- Audit rules applied uniformly across this group: capacity=yes only if a bed count is published on a county site; fees=yes only if an actual dollar rate for phone, video visit or commissary is published; bond_info=yes only if the county publishes practical guidance for posting bond or an official approved bail-bond company list.
- TCJS publishes no county-specific inspection page or report on its public website; only statewide reports and a non-compliant-jails list. This county was not on the non-compliant list checked 2026-08-22.
- Four commissioners plus the County Judge, who presides. Court meets the 2nd and 4th Thursday at 9:00 am.
- County seat: Texas State Library and Archives Commission — Counties and County Seats
The record
No death in the Fayette County jail appears on the state's record since 2016.
Deaths: Texas Justice Initiative, the cleaned copy of the Texas Attorney General’s custodial death reports — the state’s own public index carries no cause of death and has not been refreshed since August 2025. Population: Texas Commission on Jail Standards monthly report. Counted, not estimated.
These three offices decide who sits in a cell in Fayette County and what it costs the people who live here. Nationally, almost 77% of the people who died in local jails in 2019 had not been convicted of anything, and suicide was the leading single cause of those deaths (Bureau of Justice Statistics, Mortality in Local Jails, 2000–2019).
How much is your sheriff — and your judge — costing you?
Your VOTE is POWERFUL.
The sheriff who runs this jail is elected. So are the commissioners who pay for it.
Names verified 2026-08-22 · dollars and outcomes still being gathered